The D.C. city council today approved emergency legislation that will allow construction of the streetcar line along Benning Road and H Street Northeast to move forward with overhead power lines on that corridor and create a "public process" for determining whether overhead wires are acceptable on other parts of the planned system...Read On

The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority has joined the list of developers and landowners hoping to cash in on the "medical city" that's rising out of pasture land in southeastern Orange County...Read On

Carlisle Development Group, the largest affordable housing real estate developer in Florida, and Miami-Dade County, held a groundbreaking ceremony for Brownsville Transit Village, Miami's newest affordable housing community for families and seniors. Located at 5200 NW 27 Avenue in Miami, the $100 million mixed-income, multi-phase, urban in-fill development is located adjacent to the Miami-Dade Transit Brownsville Metro-Rail Station...Read On

Growing up as the son of a developer, Aaron Georgelas lived and breathed real estate. He was only 5 when he followed his father to a county zoning meeting. On weekends, the two donned hard hats and checked on construction sites. ...Read On

The Arcadia City Council voted this week to move the location of its proposed Metro Gold Line station to a more visible spot downtown, city officials said. The station is now slated to be built on the northwest corner of Santa Clara and First Avenue rather than on the southeast corner of the same intersection...Read On

Jeff Wood, Reconnecting America's New Media Director and Chief Cartographer, collects news stories and blog posts about transit and transit-oriented development from around the country and posts them at TheDirectTransfer.com. Jeff then takes the top 10 articles in each of five categories and sends that out as Other Side of the Tracks email newsletter. The content of that email is then posted here.